topic aCC -AA vs -AP in Operating System - Linux

aCC -AA vs -AP

Felix R. Jeske — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:31:10 GMT

How long is HP planning on supporting the aCC -AP (aka Classic) compiler PA-RISC HP-UX? Is there a planned phase out to force transition to -AA (aka Standard).

Re: aCC -AA vs -AP

Dennis Handly — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:56:40 GMT

I'm not sure if we have any plans to obsolete it. It is the current default and what we suggest ISVs provide.

Re: aCC -AA vs -AP

Felix R. Jeske — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:11:07 GMT

aCC -AP unfortunately requires unportable source code compared to lots of other compilers on other platforms which typically are ANSI compliant. The real nightmare scenario is when you get some libraries in -AP format but you want to code in ANSI C++ and can't. Disappointing to hear there's no phase out strategy of -AP to at least make it consistent with HP-UX on Itanium which has -AA as the default.